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Imagining Peacebuilding Citizenship Education: An investigation of the experience of North Korean migrants as ‘bridge citizens’

Cheong, Mi-cheong; (2022) Imagining Peacebuilding Citizenship Education: An investigation of the experience of North Korean migrants as ‘bridge citizens’. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

Since the national division of Korea in 1948, successive governments of South Korea have seen reunification as the way to a long- term peaceful settlement. Despite the key role of education in preparing the population for reunification and eventually in ensuring a successful social transformation, the education systems on either side have created conflict-attuned civic identities due to incompatibility. The study hypothesises that North Korean migrants who have experience of acculturation between the two Koreas and possibly experience in adapting to other democratic societies, develop new civic identities. They have the capacity to become bridge citizens who will contribute to peacebuilding. Therefore, this thesis addresses the question: to what extent and how can the experiences and reflections of North Korean migrants who have settled in ROK and the UK contribute to an appropriate educational response to reunification. This study used critical theories, namely, conflict and peacebuilding, habitus, critical peace education and cosmopolitan citizenship education as a framework to engage with literature and to conceptualise the term of bridge citizen. By using a combination of biographic narrative interviewing and digital autobiographic writing, rich narrative accounts of migration journeys and reflections of seven North Korean migrants who shared their experiences of migration and adaptation to a new culture and society were acquired. The data reveal how they transform their civic identities in their life trajectories, the ways they belong and the conflicts they felt with belonging in new circumstances, and how they cultivate new capacities as bridge citizens. Five distinct civic identities emerge: belligerent civic identity, border-crosser identity, Jayumin identity, cosmopolitan civic identity and bridging civic identity. The process of transforming their identification develops and results from new capacities for peacebuilding including, realising, enabling, reflecting, reconciling, thriving, transforming and bridge-building.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: Ph.D
Title: Imagining Peacebuilding Citizenship Education: An investigation of the experience of North Korean migrants as ‘bridge citizens’
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
Keywords: peacebuilding citizenship education, identity politics, transnational migration, biographical narrative inquiry
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144027
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